News — Board Care

Caring for a bamboo chopping board takes three habits: wash it by hand straight after use, dry it upright, and oil it whenever it starts to look dry. Do those three things and your board will give you many years of service. We make and engrave bamboo boards every day in our Hampshire workshop, so we see what daily use does to them. The boards that come back to us looking tired all failed the same way. Someone soaked them, or put them in the dishwasher. Here is the routine that keeps them right.   After every use Wash the...

I'm going to show you how you can make your own Beeswax & Natural Mineral Oil based board rub at home, this is very similar to the one we use and is fun to do. What you will need: One small food tin with label removed, like those you get baked beans in A clean & empty jar - Top tip, don't use an old pickle jar or it will overpower the beeswax smell! Beeswax beads A foodsafe natural mineral oil A heat source & small source pan Let's start by boiling some water in the pan and then loading...